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Letters - Gimme Shelter

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
December
Year
1974
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LETTERS

Gimme Shelter?

Dear Editors,

Well, Mick is in there, in the other room, singing. SHUCKS, it sure sounds like he's got the blues bad, singing about snow and time, and not waiting for anyone. It just really is too bad: they reeely half burnt out and that Paul Grant guy was right after all. Aw nuts how aweful. Yep, see HEY . . . wow . . . uh, like, did I say they had the blues? Then . . . how could this be? . . . A, uh, bad album with the blues? Then how could this be, like, you know, a uh, "bad" album . . . ?

Well, Maybe it's not "that simple, but maybe it is. May be there's at least two ways of looking at five letters or stones or whatever is rolling by, and when I listen to the warm lilting sway that Watts and Wyman set swinging before their time runs out on cut five (neatly numbered of course) I like it; an why, there's even a song about imperialism. OH WOW they are STILL revolting and I can dig them for that for sure, babe.

But how did all this get started anyway? Weren't they exiled to mainstreet or someone got their goat or something happened to their head or something . . . OH, but weight, folks, it's the cover of the NEW STONES lp, and yes, sportsfans, he's alive and half dead and walking, no he's STAGGERING into the arena and now THOUSANDS OF DANCING GIRLS . . . or no, wait a minute, no . . . it's . . . why, it's YOUNG GRECIAN-LIKE WOMEN STREAMING TOWARDS JAGGER READY TO TEAR INTO HI- . . . Wait a MINUTE, ladies and gentlemen, why aren't those YOUNG GIRLS THERE' RUSHING FORWARD TO GREET THE RETURNING HEROES? AND YES, THERE'S JAGGER NOW, WITH HIS TORN AND FRAYED GOLD LAME SUIT' LOOKING RIGHT AT THEIR CUTE LITTLE EYES, AND SCREAMING HORSELY, "DANCE. . . DANCE LITTLE SISTER . . DANCE!!"

dijano that the stones first record was the Last Time?

did you know that the doors bombed in Ann Arbor?

Holesom kids, those stones. and very sly. They must be. It seems that some little jerk in the FBI has a file on mick, rumored to be six feet high. It gets us all down, mate. Hey, you be careful. They already got you framed.

Anyway, I think the lp ain't bad, especially for a macho chauvinist half-dead burnt out old man, and his friends, who turned you and me on to rock and roll.

Gimme shelter. I like it.

OM
The Mad Music Mixer